Dr. John Lott has a letter responding to the absurd claim in the Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News that there are only 2,000 defensive gun uses per year. A slightly longer version of the letter was published in the Kankakee, Illinois Daily Journal (February 12, 2022)....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News: With violent crime increasing over the last two years, Americans want a solution. But President Joe Biden constantly frames violent crime as only a gun problem. Again, it was the sole focus of Biden's speech in New...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics and the Epoch Times. Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with Alabama State Rep. Shane Stringer on the Constitutional Carry bill that is currently being considered by the state legislature. The Birmingham News is the largest newspaper in Alabama. Gun-control advocates keep making the same...
Dr. John Lott had a letter to the editor that appeared in the Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal Star that responded to a news article in newspapers around Nebraska about an op-ed that Lott had with Nebraska state Senator Tom Brewer. A Jan. 20 World-Herald article...
Nikki Goeser has a new piece up at Townhall that she co-authored with Debbie Riddle: January 2022 marks the 18th Annual National Stalking Awareness Month. We have this awareness month due to one of the authors of this opinion piece, Debbie Riddle. Debbie’s youngest...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Washington Times responding to Democrats' claims about Republicans being anti-democratic and totalitarian because of their support for voter IDs and other anti-fraud provisions. President Joe Biden’s extreme rhetoric in his...
Nebraska State Senator Tom Brewer and Dr. John Lott have an op-ed on the issue of Constitutional Carry in the Omaha World-Herald. Today Lott will be testifying before the Nebraska state Senate on the bill that Brewer is sponsoring. Gun-control advocates keep making...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall: President Biden’s remarks after the hostage situation at the synagogue in Texas leave more questions than answers..What were the motivations for the attack occur? A full day after a Pakistani Muslim attacked a synagogue on...
Rachel Morgan and Alexandra Thompson, "Criminal Victimization, 2020," Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, October 2021. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the claims about increased gun sales causing an increase in violent crime. With...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. With the anniversary of January 6th this week, Democrats are using it to push massive election reforms. They claim the reforms are necessary to save Democracy. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the...
Here is an op-ed that I wrote with Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (though you wouldn't know it until you get to the tag line at the end of the piece). It’s always the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from gun-control activists. They warn us of...